Leslie Odom Jr. Quotes

I'll always be a foreigner.

I always feel like a foreigner in America.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.

There are two ways to make a person feel homeless—one is to destroy his home and the other is to make his home look and feel like everybody else’s home.

Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

I don't really feel part of any particular movement.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.